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Carl Einstein's writing on modern art is to a large extent defined by his encounter with Cubism. Although not mentioned by name, Cubism informed his early theoretical essay "Totality" (a draft of the first section of the text was originally titled "Picasso"), and his Negro Sculpture (1915). Yet not until 1926 did he publish a fully developed account of Cubist painting, in the first edition of his Art of the Twentieth Century.( n1) "Notes on Cubism" (1929), written for Documents, offers a condensed version of that interpretation, now embedded within the broader approach to the changing functions of images that characterized "Methodological Aphorisms" (192